When you don’t have an oven.

Who are they, how it started:

They’re Kyle and Liz von Hasseln, a husband and wife architectural design team in Los Angeles. The Sugar Lab started about two years ago, when they were graduate students in architecture. they were living in a tiny apartment in Echo Park with a correspondingly tiny outdoor kitchen, they didn’t have an oven, and when they realized that meant they couldn’t bake our friend Chelsea a cake for her birthday, they decided to try to 3D print one, instead. Often creativity comes when you face a limit.

“That’s an exciting part of 3D printing sugar for us – transforming sugar into a structural, sculptural medium that can start to define the form of the food instead of the other way around, and even to support it structurally,” the designers said.